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title: "What is the difference between Sandbox solution & farm solution?"  
description: "What is the difference between Sandbox solution & farm solution?"  
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published: 2012-09-10  
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# What is the difference between Sandbox solution & farm solution?

We can create sandbox solution for particular site but not for the entire site collection or farm. It is not applicable for farm solution. There are some restriction while creating the sandbox solution.

## Answers

### Answer by hanmandlu vasani

**Sandbox Solution: (VS2010)**scope limited web and site levelruns under user code process (SPUCWorker process.exe)runwithelavatedprivilegesis not possiblesolutions can be deployed by site collection administratorssolutions get deployed to solution galleryresource throttling can be set for each solution\
**Farm Solution**: **(VS2013)**At all level scopes of artifacts can be developedForms solutions are hosted in IIS worker process (w3wsp.exe) Full trust solutionsThese solutions are form level solutions needs to be installed by farm administratorssolutions will get deployed to solutions storesolutions will use the server resources and cannot set the throttling for resource usage

### Answer by Anonymous User

We can create sandbox solution for particular site but not for the entire site collection or farm. It is not applicable for farm solution. There are some restriction while creating the sandbox solution.


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